| Week 1: Aug. 20
What Is "American" Literature? |
| I. Early American Perspectives--Before and After First Contact |
| Week 2: Aug. 25 & 27 |
| Aug. 25 |
Native American Oral Narratives and Poetry, pp. 24-27; 56-58; 59-62; 70-73; 74-93
"Creation of the Whites" (Yuchi), pp. 115-16
Christopher Columbus, pp. 116-25
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, pp. 128 - 140
Don Antonio de Otermin, pp. 482-91
The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi), pp. 491-95 |
| Week 3: Sept. 1 & 3 |
| Sept. 1 |
John Smith, pp. 184-94
Thomas Morton, pp. 211-23
William Bradford, pp. 245-66 |
| Sept. 3 |
Handsome Lake (Seneca), pp. 182-84
Mary White Rowlandson, pp. 340-66
Mary French, pp. 470-71 |
| II. Colonial and Christian Perspectives |
| Week 4: Sept. 8 & 10 |
| Sept. 8 |
Anne Bradstreet, pp. 289-90; 291-93; 305; 307-12
The Bay Psalm Book and New England Primer, pp. 326-37 |
| Sept. 10 |
Cotton Mather, pp. 419-23; 425-27
Jonathan Edwards, pp. 569-77; 592-603
DUE: PAPER/ORIGINAL PIECE # 1 |
| Week 5: Sept. 15 & 17 |
| Sept. 15 |
Sarah Kemble Knight, pp. 529-48
Ebenezer Cook, pp. 640-58 |
| Sept. 17 |
Annis Boudinot Stockton, pp. 682-88
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, pp. 688-91
Milcah Martha Moore, pp. 692-93
Sarah Wentworth Morton, pp. 704-09 |
| Week 6: Sept. 22 & 24 |
| Sept. 22 |
Phillis Wheatley, pp. 1095-96; 1098-1100; 1104-11
Jupiter Hammon, pp. 972-79
Olaudah Equiano, pp. 1018-50 |
| Sept. 24 |
Fray Carlos Jose Delgado, pp. 1259-65
Francisco Palou, pp. 1265-74 |
| III. Perspectives on Revolution and Enlightenment |
| Week 7: Sept. 29 & Oct. 1 |
| Sept. 29 |
Benjamin Franklin, pp. 717-744; 754-60
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, pp. 849-59; 866-82 |
| Oct. 1 |
Thomas Paine, pp. 882-96
Thomas Jefferson, pp. 916-23; 929-32; 939-40
"Patriot" Voices, pp. 949-62
"Loyalist" Voices, pp. 962-67
DUE: PAPER/ORIGINAL PIECE # 2 |
| Week 8: Oct. 6 & 8 |
| Oct. 6 |
Phillip Freneau, pp. 1067-83
Joel Barlow, pp. 1128-42 |
| Oct. 8 |
Susanna Haswell Rowson, pp. 1215-26 |
| IV. Perspectives on American Identity, Society, and Culture |
| Week 9: Oct. 13 & 15 |
| Oct. 13 |
Royall Tyler, The Contrast, a Comedy in Five Acts, pp. 1147-88 |
| Oct. 15 |
Royall Tyler, (cont.) |
| Week 10: Oct. 20 & 22 |
| Oct. 20 |
Royall Tyler (cont.) |
| Oct. 22 |
Royall Tyler (cont.) |
| Week 11: Oct. 27 & 29 |
| Oct. 27 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, pp. 1578-82; 1622-38 |
| Oct. 29 |
Henry David Thoreau, pp. 2090-92; 2107-41 |
| Week 12: Nov. 3 & 5 |
| Nov. 3 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, pp. 2190-94; 2207-16; 2225-36 |
| Nov. 5 |
Sarah Margaret Fuller, pp. 1690-93; 1714-35
DUE: PAPER/ORIGINAL PIECE # 3 |
| Week 13: Nov. 10 & 12 |
| Nov. 10 |
Frederick Douglass, pp. 1751-54; 1755-1787 |
| Nov. 12 |
Frederick Douglass (cont.) pp. 1787-1818
John Greenleaf Whittier, pp. 1932-34; pp. 1936-38; 1942-45 |
| Week 14: Nov. 17 & 19 |
| Nov. 17 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, pp. 2305-09; 2310-56 |
| Nov. 19 |
Abraham Lincoln, pp. 2020-22; 2022-24 |
| Week 15: Nov. 24 (NO CLASS NOV. 26) |
| Nov. 24 |
Sealth (Chief Seattle, Duwamish), pp. 1887-88; 1888-91
Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekht (Chief Joseph, Nez Perce), "'Surrender'" Speech"
and "Speech at Lincoln Hall" (not in anthology; to be provided)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, pp. 2699-1700; cuttings from "Song of Hiawatha"
(not in anthology; to be provided)
Patt Morrison, "The Song of Native American Day . . . at Long Last" (not in
anthology; to be provided) |
| V. American Imagination Takes Flight |
| Week 16: Dec. 1 & 3 |
| Dec. 1 |
Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 1440-43; 1481-85; 1485-89; 1514-17 |
| Dec. 3 |
Dec. 3 Tales from the Hispanic Southwest, pp. 1319-32
DUE: PAPER/ORIGINAL PIECE # 4 |
| Week 17: Dec. 8 & 10 |
| Dec. 8 |
Walt Whitman, pp. 2725-29; 2743-94 |
| Dec. 10 |
Walt Whitman (cont.) [possibly Pierson's adaptation of Leaves of Grass] |
| Week 18: Dec. 15 & 17 (EXAM WEEK) |
| Dec. 15 |
Emily Dickinson, pp. 2854-61; browse pp. 2861-2918 and pick two favorites to discuss in class |
| Dec. 17 |
Emily Dickinson (cont.)
DUE: PAPER/ORIGINAL PIECE # 5 |
